Re: [Patch v9 02/10] block: Generalize chunk_sectors support as boundary support

Hannes Reinecke
2024-06-20T14:14:13Z

On 6/20/24 14:53, John Garry wrote:
> The purpose of the chunk_sectors limit is to ensure that a mergeble request
> fits within the boundary of the chunck_sector value.
>
> Such a feature will be useful for other request_queue boundary limits, so
> generalize the chunk_sectors merge code.
>
> This idea was proposed by Hannes Reinecke.
>
> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
> ---
> block/blk-merge.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> drivers/md/dm.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/blkdev.h | 13 +++++++------
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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